skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes, you can look at commits.

The short answer is that the vast majority of open source projects are to a large degree dependent on a single person or company. (And those without corporate funding can have trouble--as did CentOS at one or more points in its history before Red Hat picked up the funding.)

ADDED: Although major successful projects do tend to have a more diverse community because that's what takes most advantage of the open source development model.
Take a look at the most recent stable release notes for Chrome. I don't have a full list of which ones are in the renderer processes vs which ones are in the browser process. That said, it seems like a good number would affect Chrome without Javascript

https://chromereleases.googleblog.com/2021/01/stable-channel...
My little nitpick: Wasabi has that 90 days minimum storage policy.
Users vs. People
My point is that this is not censorship, just a prohibition of misleading labeling.
That will increase the level of useful information: lots of people here are refusing to let their complete ignorance of WSB stop them from commenting on it.
Haha nah. This one just really resonated with me.
Why Apps for Bikes and Micro-Mobility Are Shaping the Future of Fitness
Clocks on our ovens and some microwaves got out of sync during that period. I haven't seen any other device rely on the network frequency for timekeeping - everything time sensitive is already on NTP and GPS time.
> It's extremely frustrating if the build system doesn't tell you in advance if it expects the compile to work.

I have only found this behavior in three different projects that used cmake. After several minutes of beautiful compilation lines in green, it turns out that the library (that cmake was supposed to check) was not installed after all. Of course it printed a beautiful error message in red. Beautiful but non-informative, that is.
They also supplied machines to Nazi Germany during that period, which helped run the holocaust.

Which they really don't like people talking about.
Supported by the Harvard School of Medicine and the Government of India, they seem to be close to launching multiple phase 3 COVID-19 vaccine trials

More information here:

https://www.ospfound.org/open-source-covid-19-vaccine.html

https://consano.org/projects/openvax-open-source-vaccines-fo...

https://theconversation.com/covid-19-vaccines-open-source-li...
As I mention before, each of contributions is credited on GitHub commits, and VIM docs. So you still can showcase those in your portfolio, by writing case study or short information as it was before GitHub... :-)
I was curious as to how much energy the enthalpy of fusion corresponds to. Turns out it is less than one day of solar irradiation:

https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=333.55+kJ%2Fkg*28+tril...
Can't disagree with most of the points made here, except for a handful.

Firstly, that the "Autotools are not obsolete". Sorry, but they are. They have been for well over a decade. They don't serve today's needs effectively, and that is the reason for the decline in contributors and end users. They moved on. And that includes me too (I did the initial support for multiple language standards in Autoconf, starting with C99). Support for new language standards and features in Autoconf is woeful. Support for integration with various libraries, tools and frameworks is woeful. Other systems support them out of the box.

As for whether support for them should continue. That depends upon what individual projects need in terms of portability requirements. Clearly a lot of projects have multiple decades of investment into the Autotools. There is a sunk cost here, and replacement is costly.

Despite that, I've converted all of my own projects, plus many other projects I work with, over to CMake. In every case it was a net improvement, and well worth the migration hassle. Many projects overestimate the difficulty. In doing these migrations, I've seen many examples of buggy use of the Autotools. It only provides "theoretical portability". Unless you actively test it, it's most likely broken. In direct comparisons during project conversions, CMake has worked on various minor platforms (Cygwin, MinGW, Solaris) where the Autotools support was broken for years and no one noticed. That is to say, direct empirical evidence showed worse Unix portability for the Autotools than CMake.

If the Autotools want to retain relevance, the main hurdle they need to cross is portability to modern platforms. They can't stick to Unix-only portability problems of the '90s and remain relevant. So many projects have needs beyond that, and that is the main reason for the declining use. Fix that, and people might have a reason to stay.

Unfortunately, if you follow the mailing list and such, you'll see that most of the long-time developers and users have zero interest in portability outside the niche they have inhabited for the past 25 years. They don't understand how the rest of the world works or what their needs are. There is no comprehension about using tools other than shell and make. The developers who did care about this stuff moved on. I became a CMake contributor instead. Newer build systems moved on to ninja and other tools, support various IDEs, and integrate with all sorts of other systems and tools. The Autotools don't do any of that, and likely never will. Yet for most developers, these are non-negotiable. Want to use CLion, Visual Studio or Eclipse?
Yes, and honestly someone determined to do damage like that would be the sort to be patient and methodical enough to find targets with or without the map. But I do understand the instinct to want to at least increase the barrier to destruction, the problem is that it ALSO increases the barrier to understanding (and so protection and enhancement). So, an understandable but bad trade off, IMHO.
One point I found very interesting was the following paragraph:

> For example, on my (pretty average) workstation, I can do ca. 25k simple read transactions per 1 CPU core on an “in memory” pgbench dataset…with the default config for Postgres v13!

In my own very unscientific experiments I never got values as high as that, but in the area of around 4k transactions per second total on multiple cores. Of course I'm comparing very different things, I was looking at more than just the database and there are lots of other aspects I probably did in a different way.

I find this interesting as it probably means that my bottleneck wasn't entirely where I thought it was. I have to play around with that some time again.

If I wanted to find out the baseline Postgres performance on my hardware for trivial read queries like looking up individual rows by primary key with a database that fits entirely in RAM, how would I do that? I know there is pgbench, but that performs more complex queries as far as I understand.
Since marginal cost is essentially zero in software, productivity as measured in revenue per head is not really relevant.

The business climate might just be better in the US.
No because GDPR has exceptions for state usage. Tax returns are not published but some key figures are available but you need to authenticate to retrieve it and it is logged and the log is available to the searched person.
And autotools have the problem of requiring perl, m4, and some other stuff i think. And cmake requires C++. I take python over all of these anytime. That said, it's still far from ideal.
Thank you for your reply! I didn't realize you were the author of the blog until now.

Out of curiosity, do the output formats of the different models differ? With output format I mean the way that the (current) time is represented.

Not being familiar with atomic clocks, my hope and expectation is that the output is something different than a single large integer (compare unix timestamp). :)
Never make the mistake of confusing luck for genius.
This was an interesting read for a database novice. It seems like a lot of the quoted stats are about in memory datasets - is that realistic?
Debian Servers it is then.
Came here to say this. PG (or, imo, mysql) will solve 99% of your problems and if you are in the 1%, you can hire folks to help and/or migrate.
How much money I made from employee stock options
Excellent acquisition. Twitter will definitely compete and take marketshare from Substack with lower fees from 20% to 5%.
I hope this acquisition is actually a stepping stone for Twitter to become a much better service.

Twitter could absolutely become a paid service and move away from ads as its business model. No political ads to worry about. No interference with the product experience. And believe it or not, if I understand correctly these services (FB, Twitter) have an ARPU (Average Revenue Per User) of just $5-8 per year.

Imagine paying $1-3 per month for FB or Twitter. We'd no longer be the product — our data not for sale — and the companies would make more money! Knowing that my message would get received, I'd happily pay to slide into the DMs like people do to me on LinkedIn (mostly service providers, but I've gotten some great biz dev connections from InMail).

It's almost a running joke, up there with Daft Punk playing at the trash fence, that Twitter just won't release an edit button. With a move towards paying subscribers, maybe Twitter will listen to its real customers -- content writers -- rather than advertisers.
I left the US to explore living abroad but the paycut really hurt. It's funny too because in my experience the quality of engineering in Europe is higher, but the market is so uncompetitive.
lol... preaching to the choir bud

This is not something I or any other sane American can fix. It will take generations to root out this nonsense. Until parents/communities stop teaching their children bigotry and racism and scarcity mindset are good - we will lose this battle. It starts with the kids.
Says who? You?
You don't actually need python for ninja. Someone wrote a compatible tool in C called samurai.
> It does a lot of stuff!

Of course it does. My point was that I've never found it did anything that I was interested in.
The Comac C919: a narrow-body airliner
The Comac C919 is a narrow-body airliner developed by Chinese aircraft manufacturer Comac. It is intended to compete primarily with the Boeing 737 MAX and Airbus A320neo.
No, it's because rocky shores were very hazardous to shipping, and a ship "on the rocks" was either close to, or in, immediate peril.

The homage seems lovely, but doesn't (unfortunately) change the fact that to the vast majority of english speakers "rocky" means unstable/dangerous... In fact, one of the most common expressions referring to an unstable/bad relationship is "their relationship is on the rocks" or "they are on the rocks".
I don't think I've ever had a year where something didn't break or need maintenance. Some things are supposed to be done annually, like flushing your hot water heater. And the anode rod should be replaced as needed too (usually 2-4 years). With the number of devices in most homes, I find it unlikely that something doesn't need maintenance or repair in a year. Not to mention the people with cars.

The point of the right to repair bills is that the useful life of products can be extended through repair. So I guess some people who are always buying new replacements and upgrades would be less likely to need those repairs as many repairs happen later in a product's life.

I've fixed my washer and dryer before. Even just simple things like replacing the belts or resetting the thermal OL switch can be done by anyone, no qualification needed.
What's different about Game Stop today is that a bunch of new investors noticed it
Also Wozniak and Apple. Netsape/Mozilla and the internet. Gates and Microsoft. This show really does bring it all to the table.
This is the sense in which I was using Datalog - and how others like Datomic, Grakn and Crux use it (there is a growing movement of databases with a 'Datalog' query language) - althou in our case, we can also use in the former sense as TerminusDB is implemented in prolog.
If I'm not wrong, dating apps are among the worst for user privacy. Google `dating apps user privacy` and you'll find no shortage of news articles.
Consider the farmer with a combine or 4 wheel drive tractor at $250K..$350K per unit.

And the crops need to come off this week or we loose $2.5M but the company says ship it to Kansas city for repair so we can upload the new software...
You didn't link the video or reference the speaker. You just wrote:

> One youtube talk I watched listed that as a sure sign democracy is under attack in a country.

From everyone elses perspective, you are the rando in a HN comment.
The map on Wikipedia is better, as it divides Denmark correctly, and also excludes several other large European islands that are not connected to the grid.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Continenta...
I don't normally answer questions for others, but I feel uniquely qualified to chime in on this one!

I am a pretty heavy Twitter user and have been for a long time. It's really the only "social" thing I use.

I know Fleets is a Twitter thing... I remember seeing it someplace, maybe a story on Hacker News or something? Was it something like a replacement for Vine maybe? Or was it something with threaded conversations? Am I seeing Fleets in my feed? What do they look like? Are they being used at all?

I really have no idea what Fleets is and I use Twitter all the time. Whatever Fleets is I agree with pboutros, don't put that same team in charge of anything else, this rollout didn't work.

(I may be missing something totally obvious and awesome here! Maybe Fleets is the greatest thing since Google+ and I'm to set in my ways to notice or care? This could very well be another "It's not you, it's me" thing and I'm too dense to see it.)
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Businesses aren’t your friends. Employers aren’t your family.

No, but its a helpful fiction as far as it makes everyone more convivial and agreeable. It forms a kind of shared illusion, not unlike the kayfabe of professional wrestling.
No, the question was regarding how to handle activity in the platform deemed illegal under US law.

The specific hypothetical was if the Proud Boys were to recruit people for coordinated violence and not “what if I don’t like someone’s politics?”
I found your issue and that's not at all how it went down. I don't think they were the ones being arrogant.

https://github.com/neovim/neovim/issues/1496

Edit: I missed the hidden comment the first time around. For those that can't log in:

https://imgur.com/a/ysEiIkL
Which idea?

Requiring id and then making it hard to get doesn't have a lot of merit if there aren't a bunch of people exploiting the lack of id checks.
> What on earth makes you think this is true? Do you have any idea how complex it is to set up an inter-bank payment scheme? Vocalink are not even remotely easy to supplant, banks will just pass the extra costs onto merchants and wash their hands of it. There’s no profit in providing free financial services.

I know this industry quite well. Btw, this has already happened. NPSO now runs Faster payments not Vocalink anymore. Vocalink sells the stuff to banks to connect to NPSO & that helps square up card transactions too. You can also connect to NPSO directly using documented open ISO standards and not pay Vocalink anything.

[1] https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/news/2018/may/consolidation-...
Did I say something wrong?
Two years ago Google was fined 50 million euros by the French regulator. Last year it was 7 million by the Swedish. More will come.
> It is entirely legal for a company to charge different prices in Germany and Greece, except if they're a phone operator. How is that fair?

Except this isn’t true. The EU mobile roaming rules have the concept of a home country. If you spend too much time outside of it then the operator is allowed to charge roaming costs. So it not really possible for a customer to take out a contract in Greece and then only use it in France.

The only exception to this rule exists for people living near borders. Where is quite likely they commute over that border, or their phone will randomly connect to towers on the other side of border.

Given the most of the EU is part of the Schengen Area, and living and working in different countries is not only common, but encouraged. It makes sense that EU enacts laws to prevent citizens from being economically punished for exercising their rights.
You can give pgbench files to have it run the query you want (see -f flag)

https://www.postgresql.org/docs/current/pgbench.html
At a $100 price point, I'd expected a DCF77 receiver tbh, not a crystal oscillator.
Royal Dutch Shell has agreed to buy Ubitricity, owner of the largest public charging network for electric vehicles in the UK, as the oil major expands its presence along the power supply chain.

Shell said on Monday it would buy 100 per cent of the company for an undisclosed amount. Ubitricity, founded in Germany, is a leading European provider of on-street charging for electric vehicles.

The company, which integrates electric car charging into street infrastructure such as lamp posts, has more than 2,700 charge points in the UK, giving it a market share of 13 per cent.

Shell said the acquisition would help it expand into on-street charging. It already has more than 1,000 fast and ultrafast charging points at 430 Shell retail stations and a greater number including those owned by partners and affiliates at forecourts and motorway service stations.

Subject to regulatory approval, the deal is expected to close later this year.

Street charging is expected to expand rapidly as customers who lack private driveways and those that wish to charge their vehicles overnight seek greater options.

Istvan Kapitany, who heads Shell’s mobility business, said: “Working with local authorities, we want to support the growing number of Shell customers who want to switch to an [electric vehicle] by making it as convenient as possible for them.”

Like peers such as Total and Repsol, Shell has been expanding along the electricity supply chain in recent years as it looks to build a business that will be resilient through an energy transition towards cleaner fuels.

Investors and environmentalists have demanded that oil companies take greater responsibility for their role in enabling climate change, forcing Europe’s energy majors to make new pledges for cleaning up their businesses.

Shell, like BP and other oil groups, said last year it would become a net-zero emissions business. It is expected to detail its plan for how to get there next month at its strategy update.

While top leaders at the company plan to accelerate spending into cleaner businesses, they are also wary of abandoning lucrative legacy hydrocarbon divisions too soon.

For example, while electric vehicle adoption is accelerating, the fleet is still dwarfed by those with traditional engines. Demand for petrol and diesel is expected to remain robust for decades to come.

While Shell’s leadership insists it has been on the right path, some executives have said it is not moving fast enough given the rapidly changing demands of the public, investors and climate activists.

The pressure to take climate action has grown over the past year, even as the coronavirus pandemic battered the balance sheets of international oil players.

Lockdowns and travel bans dramatically cut demand for oil and led to a collapse in oil prices, hitting earnings.

Shell cut its dividend for the first time since the second world war, slashed spending by billions of dollars and said it would cut 9,000 jobs as part of a major restructuring.

The company is expected to announce its fourth-quarter results next week.
I think I understood your use of the word `contempt` because it is similar to `contente` in my mother-langauge (portuguese). However, I don't believe `contempt` assumes the meaning of `satisfied`, instead it is defined as `having a strong feeling of disliking and having no respect for someone or something`.

In any case, I have mixed feelings about in which direction society is heading.

On the one hand, I think this game of social ascension is the same as before, only the dream changed: we have no illusions of having a well paid job that affords us house, cars and a big family, at least not without acquiring a huge debt.

On the other hand, on average, we have much more access to information. The average joe is much more educated and have higher buying power than 100 years ago.

I think we can't really look at the present comparing with what once was, because we live in a time of its own. We have to reassess the current configuration, fight to keep what we acquired in terms of freedom and equality, but try to fix the perceived feeling of separation, loneliness and helplessness together.
I hate to commit red-herring but this is another example of how computing is worse today in some ways.
An edit button does not make sense for a service like Twitter. There are way to many ways to abuse it, and any solution that tries to deal with those just ends up being equivalent to what already exists: Delete and repost.
I’m honestly not sure. The world appears to contain life which feeds on life, so on some level it’s entirely necessary in order for life to continue as we know it. I know that I can make a choice to feed on life (or at least life like my own) less but I have no way of knowing that about anything else.

My intuition is that most animals can’t or don’t distinguish much in what life they feed on and so if they eat humans, it’s simply according to nature and not problematic in the least.
I have never come across a gendered language with more than two genders. If you are referring to "gender identity", it would be a good idea to use that phrase rather than the ambiguity of "gender" which now means different things to different people.
Except coordinating violence, which is specifically what the employee asked about, isn’t a “political goal”.

Breaking US law isn’t covered by the First Amendment and coordinating violence is breaking US law.
Why is the “opt out cookie” necessary? Why can’t they just assume that anyone who doesn’t have an opt in cookie hasn’t opted in and can’t be tracked? Isn’t the opt out cookie itself a form of tracking? If you have the cookie I know you’ve been to a site I advertise on/track/am affiliated with.
I think it was a directive. But it applied to transactions in the EEA. The U.K. isn’t in the EEA, so while the rule probably still exists in the U.K., it just doesn’t apply to anything anymore.
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What does the business model have to do with everything? I was merely replying to this:

> sharing users' personal data, something that influences only them

It does not influence only them, and I gave you an example. Also, I don't care what's FB's business model, I advocate that nobody should have an automatic right to build user profiles. I explicitly advocate that you should not have the right to demand payment in "data" because privacy should not be considered currency. Is that a strawman? I thought that was your entire argument "people should be free to decide to pay with their data!". NO THEY SHOULD NOT. Data is not currency, just like votes are not currency. You ask for currency, if you need payment - you don't ask for profile data.

> it's akin to "women must vote".

Well, it's an analogy, if you don't find it useful, let's drop it. The gist of it is, I feel very strongly that we should legislate that privacy is not currency, you seem to feel otherwise. It is fine to disagree, but it doesn't make my position irrational or absurd in any way. Yes, I feel that allowing people to pay with privacy _is_ exactly "taking their rights away", in the same way that allowing them to pay with their voting rights would be.
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WhatsApp's privacy update differed quite a lot between the EU and the US. That alone shows that the big tech corps are careful.
The article doesn't target all monitoring products.

The author talking specifically about IT infrastructure monitoring. Anomaly detection in business processes (like in your case orders) is something else entirely.